Alcide Nunez

Alcide "Yellow " Nunez, and Alcide Nuñez, Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez (* March 17, 1884 St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, † September 2, 1934 New Orleans ) was an American jazz clarinetist of the New Orleans Jazz.

Life and work

Nunez was born in a town in the Mississippi Delta, which is part of the settlement area of ​​the " Isleños " ( as the Spaniards called the inhabitants of the Canary Islands), the Spanish " Cajuns ", to which also belonged Nunez. When he was still a child, the family moved to New Orleans. Nunez first played guitar, but switched in 1902 to the clarinet. Soon he was one of the leading " hot" clarinetist of the city and played with "Papa Jack Laine 's Reliance Brass Band ," the trombonist Tom Brown (1888 - 1958) ( " Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland " ) and in his own bands. In 1916 he moved with " Stein's Dixie Jass Band" to Chicago, there was a founding member of the " Original Dixieland Jass Band" and played after he was in 1916 fired from this because of drinking, with vaudeville band and in the band of Bert Kelly. 1917 there was a dispute in court with Nick LaRocca, director of the Original Dixieland Jass band. Nunez was in revenge for the dismissal to one of their big hits ( " Livery Stable Blues" ) applied for a copyright. In court Nunez replied to the full-bodied Selbstpreisungen of LaRocca, the " Columbus of Jazz" was called, with a laconic "Blues is blues". Finally, we did not get both the copyright. 1918 Nunez went back to New Orleans and joined the "Louisiana Five" drummer Anton Lada at. With this band he went in 1919 to New York, she was very popular and made ​​recordings until 1920. From 1922 he played in the house band in the then trendy nightclub "Kelly 's Stables " in Chicago. After he was replaced by Johnny Dodds there, he returned in 1927 to New Orleans, where he worked in the police and in the "New Orleans Police Band " played.

His great-grandson Robert Nunez plays tuba at the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans.